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哲学家
Philosophers
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
哲学家为教授写作;作家思想家。
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
没有时间研究哲学就是成为一个真正的哲学家。
Philosophers are good at parties but not for cleaning up after.
哲学家擅长聚会，但不擅长收拾残局。
Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement.
哲学家应该得到安慰，而不是鼓励。
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
狗和哲学家做的好事最多，得到的回报最少。
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
所有人都是疯子，但能分析自己错觉的人被称为哲学家。
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
当哲学家们试图成为政治家时，他们通常就不再是哲学家了。
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
也许激怒哲学家比顺从他们更有价值。
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
哲学家对其他哲学家非常苛刻，因为他们期望过高。
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
圣经说，上帝按照自己的形象创造了人;哲学家们颠倒了这个过程:他们用自己的方式创造上帝。
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
我们有理由认为，最著名的哲学家都是商业上的笨手笨脚;但原因是他们鄙视它。
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
就目前的情况来看，哲学家们都太喜欢从高层提出批评，而不是从内部研究和理解事物。
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A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
从阿米巴变形虫到人类的过程在哲学家们看来是一个明显的进步，尽管阿米巴变形虫是否会同意这一观点还不清楚。
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
哲学家们对幽默的关注之少总是让我感到惊讶，因为幽默是一种比理性更重要的思维过程。理性只能理清认知，但幽默的过程涉及到改变它们。
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.
你们哲学家是幸运的人。你写在纸上，纸是耐心的。我是不幸的皇后，我写在易受伤害的人的皮肤上。
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
对于今天那些盲目的批评家和哲学家来说，单个的科幻故事可能和以往一样微不足道，但是科幻小说的核心，它的本质已经成为拯救我们的关键，如果我们想被拯救的话。
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
对机械一无所知的哲学家倾向于把人仅仅看作一种机械，并以此暗示人是没有目的的。这表明我们对机器和人类都缺乏了解。